Sentences with phrase «higher than in females»

An X-linked mode of inheritance must be entertained because the incidence of seizures in males was significantly higher than in females.

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In Ecuador, Panama, Ghana, Nigeria and Thailand, the rate of entrepreneurship among females was higher than that for males.

In development for more than a year with input from top female Muslim athletes, the Pro Hijab is made of a breathable polyester mesh, in line with Nike's other high performance geaIn development for more than a year with input from top female Muslim athletes, the Pro Hijab is made of a breathable polyester mesh, in line with Nike's other high performance geain line with Nike's other high performance gear.

That sentiment is substantially stronger among Millennial males than females and among those in middle - and high - income brackets (around 40 percent) than those who consider themselves as being in lower - income brackets (27 percent).

Male MBAs are hired into higher - level positions right out of school and earn, on average, $ 4,600 more per year in their first job than their female counterparts.

Posted on the church's website, his official statement reads: «As a college student on staff at a church in Texas more than 20 years ago, I regretfully had a sexual incident with a female high school senior in the church.

Thank goodness — that's one pretty sick cult — the kids get raised to be breeding stock — girls to marry unquestioningly the old man being rewarded with another young bride, the boys to be very obedient in hopes they'll get a bride, rather than kicked out (when you have polygamy, you have to maintain a very high female to male ratio — guess how they do that).

Women have long expressed a desire, passion and capability to join the highest ranks of the culinary industry, but continue to lack the same access, opportunities and support as their male counterparts — with less than a quarter of females chefs in leadership roles.

The fact is that there are more than 100,000 ACL injuries per year in the United States alone, and 30,000 of these are females of high school age.

The study's authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four times higher than in the most recent study of female high school soccer players.

In the same article, Dr. Haverbush reported that a six week training program in Cincinnati in which athletes were trained to rely more on hamstring muscles than quadriceps in order to protect the knee could reduce the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times higheIn the same article, Dr. Haverbush reported that a six week training program in Cincinnati in which athletes were trained to rely more on hamstring muscles than quadriceps in order to protect the knee could reduce the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times highein Cincinnati in which athletes were trained to rely more on hamstring muscles than quadriceps in order to protect the knee could reduce the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times highein which athletes were trained to rely more on hamstring muscles than quadriceps in order to protect the knee could reduce the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times highein order to protect the knee could reduce the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times highein female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times higher.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

The study found, however, that the odds a female athlete would suffer an ACL injury after NMT in early adulthood or their late teens were 3.6 and 1.7 times higher, respectively, than if they began NMT in their mid-teens.

Unexpectedly, the study found that the odds a female athlete would suffer an ACL injury after NMT in early adulthood or their late teens were 3.6 and 1.7 times higher, respectively, than if they began NMT in their mid-teens.

But, as a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse and field hockey players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of risk compensation, actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Female partners of circumcised men do not report a lower rate of cervical cancer, 40 nor does circumcision prevent penile cancer.41 A recent study shows that the penile cancer rate is higher in the US than in Denmark, where circumcision, except among Middle - Eastern immigrant workers, is almost unheard of.42 Indeed, researchers should investigate the possibility that circumcision has actually increased the rate of these diseases.

Concordance for divorce was significantly higher in MZ than DZ twins; this was true overall, in both the male and female samples, for both younger and older twin pairs, and both when the twins» parents had been divorced and when they had not been divorced.

The risk of ACL injuries in female, teenage athletes is up to six times higher than in male athletes of the same age, competing in the same sports.

Two high - profile political leaders — female friends despite party differences — are at odds over Nassau's plan to charge more than $ 1 million in fees to Little Leagues and other sports and nonprofit organizations that have used county parks for free for years.

In 2010, there were relatively more females (53.0 %) than males (40.5 %) with Primary school and JSS (Junior Secondary School) / JHS (Junior High School) as their highest level of education.

Data released with President Barack Obama's new College Scorecard showed that SU female alumni earnings are higher than the national average in relation to the wage gap.

(That approach is necessary since there have been only two elections - 97 and 05 - where AWS was usef; and we would not expect the number of MPs (male or female) from those cohorts in the Cabinet to be much higher than it is.

«HIV - infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females: Study suggests macrophage activation as possible reason for differential bone loss in adolescent males.»

And so did the scent of chemicals from the armpit, called axillary secretions, some of which are found at higher concentrations in male mammals than in females.

Females working in forensic science labs were almost two times more likely to report high stress levels than males, according to the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.

This permanent change gave the mice a higher dose of MIS protein than is found normally in females.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

One possible mechanism is that high glucose levels in the body of a well - fed woman favour survival of male rather than female embryos.

Professor La Vecchia said: «There is a moderate fall in deaths rates in female lung cancer in the UK, although UK rates are still higher than in other EU countries, except Denmark, as British women started to smoke earlier.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

Big - brained females were eaten about 13 per cent less often than small - brained ones though there was no such link in males, whose bright colours may counter any benefits of higher intelligence (Ecology Letters, doi.org/4p9).

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

While male and female participants performed about the same in terms of accuracy and reaction time, the neural pathways that were activated were different: Women showed greater activity in both hemispheres in the prefrontal cortex — in regions implicated in language functions and higher - level cognitive functions — than men.

For most countries, changes in healthy life expectancy for males and females between 1990 and 2013 were significant and positive, but in dozens of countries including Botswana, Belize, and Syria healthy life expectancy in 2013 was not significantly higher than in 1990.

The difference is due to gender disparity in the number of songs, with male singers performing a considerably higher percentage of popular songs than female performers during that time period.

It is easier to achieve the target ratio in rectal tissue than in cervical and vaginal tissues, according to the scientists, because the concentration of DNA molecules is lower and of tenofovir is higher in rectal tissue than in the female genital tract.

The latest report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) reveals that the highest prevalence of marijuana use is in 15 — 24 year olds and is significantly higher among males than females.

Most striking, almost one - third of males reported making arrangements for fertility preservation, which was four to five times higher than the rate seen in females.

Approximately 40 percent of respondents in the NHIS sample did not have paid sick leave; approximately half of the respondents were female; more than half were married or cohabitating; three - quarters indicated that their highest level of education included at least some college; and 62 percent were non-Hispanic white.

In most fields of science, she found, the exit rate for female engineers is much higher than in other scientific fieldIn most fields of science, she found, the exit rate for female engineers is much higher than in other scientific fieldin other scientific fields.

These include functioning successfully in their lives before the disease emerged; experiencing severe symptoms suddenly, all at once, rather than little by little; being older when the disease appeared; being female; having a higher IQ; and lacking a family history of the disorder.

Consistent with that result, the researchers found that certain regions of the X chromosome in human female B cells, including regions that contain immunity - related genes, were expressed at higher levels than male cells.

Dominant females benefited from their status and spent longer time bathing, but they were also involved in more aggressive conflicts, resulting in higher energy expenditure than subordinate females.

But, our findings show that in women with type 1 diabetes this «female protection» seems to be lost and excess deaths in women with type 1 diabetes are higher than in men with the disease.»

Because females tend to embed in clusters, any male that comes along will have a chance to mate with multiple females — and a group of females will have a higher chance of being found by a male than a single one.

Specifically, females without autism have a slightly higher level of RORA in the frontal cortex of the brain than males without autism, while the levels of the protein are comparably lower in the brain of both males and females with autism.

Evolutionary biologists say male mortality, which is overall higher than that of females, explains the male bias in sex ratio: A slightly skewed sex ratio at birth that favors males ensures that there are roughly an equal number of males and females of reproductive age.

To explore that question, a team led by Cornell University biomedical engineer Claudia Fischbach first showed that female mice that were obese, because of genetics or a high - fat diet, had more fibrous mammary fat pads with straighter collagen fibers than those seen in lean mice (see image).